Bracelet telephone device

ABSTRACT

The bracelet telephone device comprises a wireless telephone terminal or mobile telephone mounted on an embracing element like a bracelet which incorporates electronic connection bus wherein the mobile telephone has two parts removably coupled to each other and which can be separated from each other, including a total separation, but remaining electrically connected by means of an extensible cable, and having also removable power supply batteries. Additionally, other blocks or elements, such as a watch, a calculator or the like, are also mounted removably on the bracelet on the side opposite to the mobile telephone are also connected by said plurality of bus. In a preferred embodiment, the keyboard of the mobile telephone incorporates engraved symbols of the Braille alphabet for sightless users.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention refers to a movable telephone or wirelesstelephone terminal, having the suitable disposition for the mostcomfortable positioning at the wrist of the wearer, easy to use and witha variety of possibilities by virtue of its extractable earphone, withthe faculty of incorporating optional complementary elements, withcapacity to be connected to peripherals and provided with an alarmdevice and an special keyboard for blind people in case such elementsare requested.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In the present day, the use of portable telephone devices which allowsthe user to be in permanent contact with his work place, his clients,his home, etc. is more and more prevalent. Such devices present thedisadvantages which are logically derived from their transport, such asthe inconvenience of carrying them in the hand, in a case which can beadapted to the belt, in a handbag or a purse used for that purpose, aswell as their usual risk of loss at a client's place or other places andthe inability of using one's hands for other activity at the same time.

On the other hand, in our times, and especially in the business world,there are more and more elements and electronic or other kind of devicesthat, unceasingly, are necessary to perform preferred functions. It isnecessary to point out the continuous need to use timers, chronometers,calculating machines, electronic diaries, computers, alarms, etc., whichmake that the problems to transport such elements for a person who,because of the characteristics of his job, has to carry those devicesout into different places and moving frequently, are more importantevery day, with the paradoxical case that, often, the inconvenience ofthe need for the mentioned continuous transport is more important thanthe work proper.

Equally, the above mentioned problem, derived from the need of using atthe same time any of the mentioned elements and the telephone, which isvery difficult, not to say impossible, before the necessity of holdingthe later in one hand, has a lot of relevance.

From the prior art is known a device which can be worn on the user'swrist and provided with a telephone element, computer, and timer, butsuch device has several disadvantages such as the difficult use of thetelephone, the most important of which makes it necessary to pull down acover to which the earphone is incorporated, something which is verydifficult because of the way it is positioned on the forearm and thehard weight that it has to hold up.

Today, other elements resulting from the study of the precedent art,such as timers provided with minuscule telephone devices, are just afancy or a curiosity, since, because of their size, it is impossible toobtain the services which are usually needed, with no mention of thegreat difficulty to dial.

In modern days, there are many situations in which the fact of having analarm may be decisive in a so favorable way that it may even save alife, for example in the case of a person who is suddenly ill and isalone, in the case of a robbery, or any other incident which requiresthe help of somebody else. The use of alarms at premises or in vehiclesis frequent, whether they are optical, sonic, ultrasonic or telephonic;but they are usually not used by humans, something which could be veryuseful in such cases as already mentioned, or others such as the case ofa person who travels an unfrequented road or who performs dangerousjobs, a cashier of a bank, etc., jobs in which, for example, one alarmtelephone with a call to his home, his work place, a police station orsome other appropriate places, could be decisive many times, but,especially, would be a greater assurance for the user.

All of the facts directed to improve the lack of necessary conditionsinvolving the persons suffering a handicap have a lot of human andsocial relevance. In the case of a blind person, who, because of herhandicap, is probably the one who specially needs to communicate withmore precision with other persons through sounds, she has the problem ofdifficulty to perform telephone calls and, if they have the chance, whenthey get used enough to a certain apparatus, they can dial a certainnumber, even though this means to them an obstacle leading to a greatereffort and, furthermore, they need a long time to get used to thefeatures of the apparatus, something which will occur each time theychange it.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object of the invention is to develop a telephone device which canbe adapted to the wrist and forearm of the wearer and which can besimply and comfortably used, which weighs as little as possible, andwith an alarm system as well as a keyboard having Braille code for blindpeople and optionally joined to other elements, such as timers,chronometers, calculating machines, electronic diaries, computers or anyothers.

According to the present invention, the premises followed are reached bymeans of a movable telephone or a wireless telephone terminal, with aremovable earphone and an electric cable for connecting an externalelectric battery or the self-contained battery of the device ortelephone terminal, as well as an alarm and a keyboard complementary tothe usual, engraved with the Braille code; the telephone element ofwhich is provided with joint members to a wrist and forearm embracingelement that on its opposite side, can also be joined or not to anotherelement, bearing one or various devices, such as a timer, a chronometer,a calculating machines, an electronic diary, a computer, etc. In such away, the removable earphone will allow a simple and comfortable use, aswell as other advantages which, will be named later, the feedingseparation, will obtain the sensible reduction of the weight upon thealarm, and the rest of the elements and devices, optionals, will fulfillthe functions they had assigned, being selectively changed by the user.

Some other features and advantages of the invention will result clearerfrom the following description, performed with the help of the drawingsenclosed, referring to an embodiment example non restrictive.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a top view of the telephone device, with the detailof three of the positions which can be adopted by the earphone which ithas, joined to the embracing element.

FIG. 2 shows a side elevation view corresponding to the said elements.

FIG. 3 illustrates a front elevation view of the same elements.

FIG. 4 represents a perspective view of the same elements, on theoptional case of being joined to the above mentioned embracing elementin the opposite side of the telephonic device, a comprehensive body ofone or various different elements.

FIG. 5 illustrates a front elevation view of the whole, represented onthe perspective of FIG. 4.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The movable telephone and/or wireless telephone terminal 1, is providedwith conventional joining means 2 which allows the joining of anembracing element 3, such as a chain, wristband, strap, belt, clip orany other appropriated for its suitable fixing to the user's forearm; atthe same time that they delimit an opening 2 a to allow the way insidethe element 1 of optional electronic connection buses 14, inserted intothe embracing element 3. As shown more clearly by FIG. 3, said telephonedevice 1 will have a configuration adapted to the anatomy of a user' armwith U-shaped cross section with divergent branches and will beprovided, on the face which is in contact with the skin, with a layer 4made of an appropriate material so as to allow a flexible support, asoft and comfortable contact, with suitable properties from thedermatologic and antiallergic point of view, such as rubber or latex,scientifically treated to obtain such properties, as the case may be.

The interior face of the embracing element 3, intended for remaining incontact with the user's skin, will have properties similar to the onesdescribed for layer 4. The movable telephone and/or wireless telephoneterminal 1 has an earphone 8 which can displace through guides 8 a-8 bto displace with regard to the box of movable telephone and/or wirelessterminal 1 or even until the earphone is separated therefrom. Such aproperty, besides solving the inconvenience of using previous apparatuswhich require the user to pull down the cover to which the earphone isincorporated, has the advantage of being able to adjust the distancebetween the microphone and the earphone, so as to be adapted to thedistances between the mouth and the ear of different users and, in thecase of complete separation, its possible connection with any exteriorperipheric element, such as a nearby recorder or a amplifier whendesired, the possibility to prevent listening by a third person, as wellas the option of connecting to computers, printers, or other elements.That is shown in FIGS. 1-3, in which it can seen that earphone 8 hasguides 8 a which extend through grooves 8 b provided in section 1,whereby said earphone 8 can displace in the longitudinal sense and evendetach therefrom, as shown in a especially clear way in FIG. 1.

The connection maintenance between the earphone 8 which can be separatedand the rest of the telephonic block 1, is possible by using a wire 9,very extensible and rolled up in the inside of the base block or thesupplementary exterior one, or even by means of proper wirelessconnection providing elements of enough sensitivity and power. Theearphone which can be separated may serve, at the same time, as acomplement to work as a personal audio player, a flap element, aminiature, a pocket, etc.

In order to lighten the weight that the user's forearm has to hold, thetelephone device 1 has a extensible and rolled-up wiring 13, theopposite end of which is connected to an external electric battery (notshown) or to the self-contained battery of the device or telephoneterminal itself that, in this way, may be accommodated inside a pocket,independently from the rest of the apparatus, which remains joined tothe forearm. The extensible and rolled-up wiring can be of any kindknown by those skilled in the art.

In the same way, optionally, it may be provided with an alarm, which canbe complemented or not with a personal code, actuated through a button10 or two of them so as to avoid any accidental or undesired activation;it may be an optical alarm, to call up the attention, a sonic alarm forthe said task or to provoke the escape of a possible aggressor; anultrasonic to a receiver, at a pre-established place, or a telephoniclink to cause connection with a preset number stored in the memory forthat purpose. The relevance of this device is evident for the cases ofemergency, robbery, misleading of children or elderly, and security forcertain ill people with a cardiovascular, asthmatic, epileptic disease,a handicap, etc., or simply for a person who travels alone, in the caseof a accident. This button 10 can be located in any suitable way as isknown by those skilled in the art.

In the same way, as an optional equipment complementary to the totalityof the keyboard or to the main keys, the existence of a keyboard 12engraved with the Braille code symbols, so as to make easier its use forblind people, is a very important innovation.

As shown by FIGS. 4 and 5, the embracing element 3, consisting of achain, strap, wristband, clip or any other, may be joined by its zoneopposite to telephone device 1, to a body 5, provided with arecess-shaped area 7 in which there may be one of various elements, suchas timers, chronometers, alarms, calculating machines, electronicdiaries, computers or others (not shown), which can be located in anysuitable way as is known by those skilled in the art. For this purpose,the body 5, which will be provided with a layer 6 with the sameproperties as the layer 4 from the element 1 for a pleasant and harmlesscontact with the user's skin and likewise, will be provided with asuitable anatomical form, that is to say, with U-shaped cross sectionwith divergent branches, will also have a joining or coupling means 5 bto said embracing element, as well as an opening 5 b suitable for thepassage of the electronic connection buses 14, inserted inside of it, ina similar way as above described for the coupling of telephone device 1.

The electronic connections may take place through the referred elementsor from independent electronic connection elements. The whole may beprovided with connection points adapted for external periphericelements, such as battery fillers, supplementary batteries, etc.

It could be possible to provide some, various or the whole of thedevices and accommodated elements with independent batteries of lesscapacity, for maintaining its independent operation, or as a deposit forenergy or even for managing without the principal energy source duringprovisional periods.

The microphone corresponding to the telephone device 1, may be provided,optionally, with a pull down cover so as to improve the quality of thetransmitted sound, to incorporate the said microphone to the pull downcover or to eliminate it, using an adequate polarizing microphone.

With all, besides the related advantages, it is possible to provide withvarious blocks or bodies 5, provided as interchangeable element in anyway known by those skilled in the art, provided just with one or withvarious elements and to interchange them, depending on the needs of eachmoment.

Naturally, the telephone device 1, will be provided with an extensiblepertinent antenna 15.

The embracing element 3 will be prepared in a convenient way so as to beable to be joined or separated on the area opposite to the telephonicelement 1, through its longer symmetric axis, as well as the electronicconnection buses 14 which are inserted in it, in order to, at the userswish, make it possible to carry only the telephone device 1 (case shownin FIG. 3), or to be joined also to an element or block 5, as shown inFIGS. 4 and 5, as well as to replace, according to its needs, a block orelement with another one. For this purpose, on the same way, the meansof a catch or an electronic connection of the elements and bodies 5,which will have to receive the longitudinal edges free from the element3 and its buses 14, will be properly prepared for it.

It must be noted that, for reasons of descriptive economy, the detailedexplanation of those elements that, because they are conventionals, theyallow the possibility of choosing among them, has been avoided, and sothey might be provided or selected in the forms that can be consideredtechnically and industrially more appropriate.

The object of the invention has been described sufficiently, so it isonly necessary to point out that the resulting embodiments about form,sizes, similar materials changes, as well as the derived from a routineapplication from what was developed before, must been included in itsscope, in such a way that the invention will only be limited within thefollowing claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A bracelet telephone device, comprising: awireless telephone terminal (1) with a body and joining means (2) forcoupling the telephone device to an embracing element (3) adapted formounting on a user's forearm and with connection buses (14) insertedinto said embracing elements (3) for operative interconnection to thewireless telephone terminal with others various elements, where thewireless telephone terminal (1) comprises an earphone (8) mounted to thebody through guides (8 a-8 b) to allow displacement of the earphone withregard to the body of said telephone device, characterized in that theearphone (8) is completely separated from said wireless telephoneterminal (1) and maintains communication with the telephone terminal bymeans of a wireless connection with the telephone terminal.
 2. Bracelettelephone device, according to claim 1, characterized by a button (10)operatively associated with the device for activation of an optical,sonic, ultrasonic or telephonic alarm of the telephone device. 3.Bracelet telephone device, according to claim 1, characterized by asecond keyboard (12) provided with Braille code symbols for use by blindpeople, in addition to a main keyboard equipped with visual symbols. 4.Bracelet telephone device, according to claim 1, characterized by anelectric connection (13) in the form of a cable for connecting anexternal battery or a self-contained battery of the telephone device. 5.The bracelet telephone device according to claim 1, further comprising:a block (5) releasably located on said embracing element (3), in aposition opposite to the telephone terminal (1), said block (5)including a recessed area (7) to house at least one additionalelectronic element, and the recess-shaped area (7) is provided on anupper face of said block (5).